Margaret Fuller was the First American Woman to write about equality for women, to enter the Harvard Library for her own research, to be a literary critic who set literary standards, and so much more. When she was a child her father educated her and she was sent to many different schools growing up. She was a very smart young lady from the start. Her Career started in 1834 when she wrote a critique of an article on slavery in ancient Rome that was published in the Boston Daily Advisor. After writing other articles she moved on to become a teacher in Bronson Alcott’s Temple School. A year later the school was failing, so she went on to teach at Hiram Fuller’s Greene Street School in Rhode Island. She then visited Emersons in Concord and was
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Wells was quite different. She was a woman of color in a time of oppression. She was a teacher and an acclaimed journalist, and one of the founders of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was a civil rights activist and part of the woman’s suffrage movement. She became famous for a court case she was in that was full of injustice. She was sitting in her seat in the rear car. When the conductor came collecting tickets her told her he couldn’t accept her’s in that car. He wanted her to go into the front car because she was colored. She told him no and that she wanted to stay in her seat, when she kept resisting they dragged her into the front car. She sued the railroad,and at first she won her case. But later on the court reversed their decision. Ida then wrote about her experience where it was published in several colored people newspapers. Ida also wrote a lot about the lynchings in the southern United States. She wrote many influential writings and ended up starting her own paper that she named “Free Speech” Because she was such an influential writer men in Memphis ended up burning her printing press. So she left Memphis. She traveled for a while and then settled down in New York. She then became a staff member for the newspaper “New York Age” by 1895 she had written the first “statistical treatment” of lynching, she called it “Red Record” Afterwards she married and moved to Chicago. She became a chair of the Chicago Equal Rights League. She later moved on to become a cofounder of the
Wells was quite different. She was a woman of color in a time of oppression. She was a teacher and an acclaimed journalist, and one of the founders of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was a civil rights activist and part of the woman’s suffrage movement. She became famous for a court case she was in that was full of injustice. She was sitting in her seat in the rear car. When the conductor came collecting tickets her told her he couldn’t accept her’s in that car. He wanted her to go into the front car because she was colored. She told him no and that she wanted to stay in her seat, when she kept resisting they dragged her into the front car. She sued the railroad,and at first she won her case. But later on the court reversed their decision. Ida then wrote about her experience where it was published in several colored people newspapers. Ida also wrote a lot about the lynchings in the southern United States. She wrote many influential writings and ended up starting her own paper that she named “Free Speech” Because she was such an influential writer men in Memphis ended up burning her printing press. So she left Memphis. She traveled for a while and then settled down in New York. She then became a staff member for the newspaper “New York Age” by 1895 she had written the first “statistical treatment” of lynching, she called it “Red Record” Afterwards she married and moved to Chicago. She became a chair of the Chicago Equal Rights League. She later moved on to become a cofounder of the